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:6 . EVENING TOO SPEEDY » G. D. Wideners Filly Easily Accounts for Chesapeake Stakes. » Takes Measure of Several Derby Candidates — Tremendous Crowd for Final Day at Havre. — -♦ HAVRE DE GRACE. Md., April 30.— George D. Wideners good mare Evening added to her laurels when she beat a big band of three-year-olds in the Chesapeake Stakes at Havre de Grace this afternoon. Outrun in the early stages, Evening was rated along under slight restraint. Leish-man waited until rounding the far turn before making his move up and when called on Evening responded full of energy and, rounding the turn into the home stretch she caught and passed Barcelona Pete, and for the remainder of the journey Evening held command of the situation. At the finish she had a lead of a length and a quarter over Mrs. John Hay Whitneys Stepenfetchit, which beat his stable companion, Over Time, by two lengths. The field was sent away to a good start, and in the run to the first turn Microphone went to the front, followed by Barcelona Pete. Over Time and Stepenfetchit trailed the others. Evening was in the middle of the bunch. In the run down the back stretch the Whitney entry was taken to the outside and gradually improved their position. War Hero moved up with them. Coming into the home stretch Stepenfetchit was carried wide. When straightened out he made a bold challenge, but the gap he closed began to tell on him, and in the final stages he tired. Both of the Whitney colts ran smashing good races, as did also War Hero. Evening was the only filly in the race. The mile and a sixteenth was run in 1:45%, just a second off the track record. The net value of the stake to the winner was 0,850. Incidentally, Evenings victory was a double for the G. D. Widener stable. The Philadelphia sportsmans colors were carried to victory in the second race when Supercharge won. The closing day of the Havre de Grace Continued on twenty-ninth page. EVENING TOO SPEEDY Continued from first page. meeting brought out a tremendous gathering. Speculation was keen, and stirring contests were in order. A majority of the stables leave for Pimlico, where a twelve-day meeting of the Maryland Jockey Club opens Monday. In the greatest race run at this meeting, Gallant Knight, the famous racer from B. B. Jones Audley Farm in Virginia, defeated W. M. Jeffords Aegis by a nose in the Dixie Trial, with the Linton Farms Flagstone a head behind the mighty pair in front. From the barrier to the finish in this race of one mile and a sixteenth, Gallant Knight, making his first start of the year, raced with the crack American Flag gelding. The others were forgotten as the two leaders fought it out in a furious duel. Only in the last sixteenth did Flagstone come rushing up to make it a three-horse finish. Gallant Knight and Aegis got away almost together. They rushed out and Han-ford sent Aegis to the front. He led the Bright Knight horse by a length until Schutte sent the latter up leaving the back stretch. Aegis refused to give way and the pair raced around the turn and headed for home as a team. Fifty yards from the finish Gallant Knight was leading by a head. Hanford, with a desperate drive, got Aegis a bit closer, but Gallant Knight held his slim lead. Flagstone, a four-year-old colt from Sun Flag, ran a remarkable race and might have won had the race been longer. Louis Merryman, three-year-old colt owned by Mrs. W. L. Brodie, earned his first brackets in the opener, beating J. J. Morans Burnside, the favorite, by a length, over the mile and a sixteenth route. Ryland News Huraway dropped into third place, six lengths back of Burnside. The field was well strung out rounding the first turn, after a good start, with Burnside leading the way. Gilbert had hustled the John P. Grier gelding into the lead soon ■ after the break. Burnside led through the back stretch, but Smith, meanwhile, had brought Louis Merryman forward and, rounding the far turn, challenged Burnside. When straightened for home. Louis Merryman easily pulled away from Burnside, with the others well back. Supercharge, a bay filly by Supremus, from Caroline, carried the George D. Wide-ner Colors to win the Westminister, the two-year-old feature of the afternoon. The filly, making her first start, won easily, beating Hal P. Headleys Liqueur by a length and a half, with C. V. Whitneys New Sun third, another two lengths away. In a rousing nose finish which had the big crowd in an uproar, the Nevada Stock Farms Vishnu beat the Mereworth Studs Ladder in the third race. George D. Wid-eners Finite was third, one and one-half lengths back, and Phantom Legion fourth. The race was close all the way. Jimmy Smith sent Vishnu to the front soon after the start, with Pancho Lopez and Finite almost lapped on him. Pete Walls had Ladder under restraint, and when the field turned for home he sent the son of Ladkin to the inside, slipped past Finite, drew up even with Vishnu and it was a battle from the sixteenth post. Ladder gradually gained on Vishnu, but Smith gave the winner a vigorous hand ride and got him across the finish line in front. Vice-President Charles Curtis motored from Washington, D. C, to witness the closing days card of the Harford Agricultural and Breeders Association. After the running of the fourth race Saturday the following ruling came from the stewards: "Jockey F. Stevens has this day been suspended and his case referred to the Racing Commission for such further action as they deem fit."
